December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NEW!! CONFERENCE AGENDA IR AND SECURITY
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Reporting threshold for NY money transfers lowered
by daw＠cs.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this might be of interest to cypherpunks: The threshold for reporting New York money transfers was apparently quietly lowered to $750 last month. Looks like all it took was one order signed by one Treasury official -- eek. Can they lower the $10k cash threshold just as easily? * NYT Sunday April 13, 1997 * * U.S. Seizes $5.6 Million Hidden in a Truck on Way to Mexico * By Sam Dillon * * Mexico City, April 12 - United States officials said today that * $5.6 million discovered this week in a truck about to cross into * Mexico from El Paso was the largest cash seizure in memory along * the southwest border. * [snip] * * ...probably the proceeds of street drug sales... * [snip] * * Officials have seen a big increase in cash seizures lately... * [snip] * * In [another] case the authorities believe the traffickers * chose to move the cash south out of New York in bulk by * car because of an order signed by Mr. Kelly [Treasury * Under Secretary Raymond W. Kelly] which required New York * businesses transmitting cash to report all transactions * over $750. * * Although the order was not announced, word spread quickly * among traffickers, and a dramatic drop in money wires to * Colombia followed, along with a sharp increase in seizures * of cash along the eastern seaboard. Thanks to <guy(a)panix.com> for forwarding.

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Re: NSA _likes_ strong crypto?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:07:35 -0400 > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > From: Thomas Porter <txporter(a)mindspring.com> > Subject: Re: NSA _likes_ strong crypto? > Reply-to: Thomas Porter <txporter(a)mindspring.com> > At 09:32 AM 5/15/97 -0700, Bill Frantz thoughtfully expounded thus: > > > > >During a hall discussion at CFP, I heard that people at NSA are changing > >their opinions about the use of strong crypto in the general community. > >The reason is the threat of InfoWar and the need for strong crypto in > >general use to secure the US information infrastructure. > > > I realize I may catch it for my numerical ignorance here, but a more > paranoid type might think that any acquiescence on the part of NSA might be > due to more relative ease of breaking important traffic than they might > have possessed in the past. > > Does any one on the list have any ideas on what the Intel mega-pentium > parallel processor (touted for nuclear explosion and weather simulations a > few months back, and noticeably missing any mention of NSA application) > does to the time estimates for cracking "strong" crypto keys? I am being > purposefully vague in my definitions of strong crypto, but I would present > as my test cases PGP ascii-armor traffic of 2048 key length or plain files > encrypted with pgp -c option; ie. typical crypto-criminal/narco-terrorist > fodder. > > How does this strength of encryption compare to whatever might be used to > "secure the nation's info infrastructure" [Netscape 40 bit!!??] regarding > cracking time? Clearly less, but how much less on this type of specialized > parallel processor? To put it another way, any swags on how long it would > take this pentium parallel processor to crack the current DES56 challenge? > > Inquiring (and ignorant) minds want to know, > > Tom Porter txporter(a)mindspring.com 1. You must assume that any well-heeled opponent will have built a Wiener engine, so the time to brute a DES key can be measured in hours, rather than days. A ciphertext-only attack is only a little harder than a known-plaintext attack. But that doesn't stop us from doing the calculation anyway. The fastest DES cracker I'm aware of (Bryddes) currently claims 615,000 keys/sec on a Pentium 120. The sandia machine is acheiving 1.06 Tflops with 7264 processors. The processors are 200 MHz Pentium Pros. (The Mflop rate is lower than the MHz rate). They plan to have 9200 of them when it's finished. 615k * 200/120 = 1.025Mkps (it'll actually be a bit higher on a Pro) 1.025M * 9200 = 9.430Gkps (2^56 = 7.2E16)/9.43E9 = 7.6 Msec = 88.44 days Thats a conservative, upper limit, not a SWAG. Speeds would be much higher on a 64 bit machine. I'm very curious to see how bitslice DES would run on an MMX Pentium, which has some 64 bit registers. 40 bit encryption is a bad joke = it would take about 2 min on this machine for 40 bit DES Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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A wee bit of Civil Disobedience
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Want to add a bit of mass civil disobedience to the Crypto movement? Get alt.binaries.crypto created as a usenet news group. Why has this not happened already? This will make an even bigger mockery of the ITARs, the EARs, and the other silly regs throughout the world. [BTW, for those of you who oppose "Careerpunks", consider this... How can you throw your crypto-sabots if you cannot get close to the machinary of industry?] Jarvis Pym Mad Chemist of Kaos

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by ryank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Express Letter
by internet＠netline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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MSNBC poll on crypto
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Should the United States remove restrictions on the export of powerful encryption technology? * 283 responses Unequivocally yes (84.1%) Yes, but only if law enforcement is given the keys to break the encryption when necessary. (9.9%) No, maintain the status quo. (1.8%) No. In fact, the restrictions should be tightened. (4.2%)

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Clinton virus
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Just Say "No" to Congress
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > Tim wrote: > > We're basically under assault from all directions. The bozos in Congress > > and state governments are spinning out new laws and obscure regulations > > faster than we can react...and of course they're using our money to > > generate these laws and lobby for them. Further, a mostly-brainwashed > > Washington media population is surprising uncritical of these blizzard > > drifts of new laws. > Hmmm... Do I get counted in the "mostly-brainwashed" category? > > FYI, here are two bills that Feinstein introduced recently: I think you just showed the answer to the question is "Yes." Politicians build a house of mirrors with bills that they "introduce"--agencies that they "propose" be funded--causes that they "support." I'm not interested in a reporter quoting "the record" to me. I can get that from Feinstein's glossy handouts. I want to know what a politician has *done* for me (or against me), not how much she purports to *love* me. I enjoy many of your articles, Declan, but please--no more "Senator XYZ introduced a bill that supports mom's apple pie and the flag." tripe. TruthMonger

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Kansas City.
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A new scheme to broadcast the names and faces of people arrested for trying to buy and sell sex could mushroom into a full-fledged challenge to U.S. constitutional law. Starting Thursday, a local government access cable television channel will broadcast the names and faces of people arrested for prostitution-related crimes. The first half-hour installment will feature mugshots of alleged purveyors of sex and the customers who offered to pay for it. Supporters of the plan hope that such public humiliation will help efforts to crack down on prostitution. But opponents say it violates the principle of ``innocent until proven guilty,'' a key tenet of U.S. criminal law. ``The city is setting out to punish with ridicule people who have not been convicted of anything,'' said Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas and western Missouri. ``The presumption of innocence is really turned on its head with this scheme.'' Both supporters and opponents say that although U.S. media groups regularly publish the names of people arrested and charged with crimes, this may be the first time a government entity broadcasts the identities of alleged wrongdoers. ``As far as we can tell, this is the first jurisdiction that's putting on TV names of people arrested. This is a fairly novel approach,'' Kurtenbach said. The plan was the brainchild of City Councilwoman Teresa Loar, who said she hopes it will deter prostitution and the social ills -- drug use, assault and robbery -- that commonly accompany it. ``I'm not here to persecute people. I just want them to know that they run the risk of having their picture on the access channel if they try to hire a prostitute,'' Loar said. Loar said she is aware of ACLU's criticisms, but she counters by saying that arrests are a matter of public record. She noted that a disclaimer will say that those people pictured are innocent until found guilty in a court of law. When asked why the city does not air the names of people actually convicted of prostitution, Loar explained that few arrests in prostitution sting operations actually lead to convictions. ``Showing convictions wouldn't work -- because we don't get any. They (the accused prostitutes and would-be customers) plead their way down and pay a fine,'' Loar said. Loar said she understands the idea of constitutional rights but feels her constituents' rights are more pressing. ``As far as victims' rights go, my concern is my constituents' rights to quality of life. Their rights are being violated every day with this crime,'' Loar said. Constitutional law experts acknowledged that those people whose names and faces wind up on television could sue the city but would probably lose any claims alleging defamation or invasion of privacy. But Doug Linder, law professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City, said it may be possible to claim that the broadcast constitutes a form of punishment, which legally has to be meted out through due process of law. Plaintiffs could sue on the grounds that they were not given due process to defend themselves, Linder said. ``One could argue that it is a form of punishment if the police department or the city is providing their pictures,'' Linder said. ``These people should have the opportunity to prove their innocence. I think there might be a real constitutional claim there.''

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